January 30, 2011
Reference: Common Sense on Guns
(Email from Governor Howard Dean, dated January 30, 2011)
Governor Dean,
Doing background checks certainly is important regarding gun control, but that is not enough.
Several years ago, the gun manufacturers and the National Rifle Association (NRA) appeared before the Senate and/or the House. One purpose of the hearing was to disallow the availability of assault/automatic weapons...
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November 26, 2010
Attitude of Gratitude
Jamie Lee Curtis (actress and children’s book author) wrote an article on the above subject that was posted on the Huffingtonpost.com on November 25 (Thanksgiving Day), 2010.
It is inspiring to hear someone else strongly recommend thinking.
Curtis mentions some of our choices, such as choosing to be grateful, gluttonous, generous, greedy, or good. She mentions our choices...
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November 21, 2010
The Deficit—2
I put my cynical pen to paper again.
On the front cover of the November 26, 2010, issue of The Week is the following:
No sacred cows?
A plan to make deep cuts in the federal deficit
And below those words is a cow, which has inscribed on it the following:
Social Security/Medicare/Defense/ Bush Tax Cuts/Earmarks/Tax Breaks/
Federal Payroll/Farm Subsidies
Now doesn’t that sound...
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November 14, 2010
Influence of the Tea Party upon the 112th Congress
Adele Stan—Alternet.com (progressive entity)—Washington Bureau Chief
Author of new book, Dangerous Brew: Exposing the Tea Party’s Agenda to Take Over America.
(Interviewed on C-SPAN—Washington Journal program—Novermber 13, 2010)
Adele Stan confirms what I had said, that the Tea Party is a division of the Republican Party. I say that the Tea Party was...
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October 30, 2010
Support Prop. 20; reject Prop. 27 is the subject of an email I received today regarding the drawing of legislative and congressional voting districts in California. This subject should be of importance to us regardless of where we live in the United States.
I give, at the bottom of this blog, the link to the subject letter from Jason...
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